Arend Jan van Driesten artwork • painting • previously for sale A river landscape
Arend Jan van Driesten
Leiden 1878-1969 Oegstgeest
1878-1969
A river landscape
oil on canvas 51.2 x 67.5 cm, signed l.r.
This painting was previously for sale.
A.J. van Driesten belongs to the group of Leiden Impressionists that also includes Willem van der Nat and Cornelis Vreedenburg. They took as example the work of the Hague School painters, who depicted nature’s moods in an interplay of colours and tones rather than exactly representing reality. Van Driesten chiefly painted watercolours of landscapes, drawing inspiration from the watery area around Leiden and the Noorden and Nieuwkoop lakes – where Weissenbruch had once painted – and, later, Renkum, Eefde and Gulpen.
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